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On Thursday, May 28, 2009, Google has released to developers an early version of a complex collaboration and communications tool that consolidates functions of e-mail, instant messaging, blogging, wikis, and multimedia management, as well as document sharing.
Google Wave is a new communication service, a kind of social networking so as to say. PC World has called “Wave”, the Web application as possibly one of the riskiest and most ambitious endeavors Google has embarked on.
The Google Wave code will be open source, to foster innovation and adoption amongst developers.
Google Wave has been designed by the founders of Where 2 Tech, a start-up acquired by Google to create a cutting-edge mapping service, which later became Google Maps.
In Google Wave you create a “wave” and add people to it. Everyone on your wave can use richly formatted text, photos, gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the web. They can insert a reply or edit the wave directly. It’s concurrent rich-text editing, where you see on your screen nearly instantly what your fellow collaborators are typing in your wave. That means Google Wave is just as well suited for quick messages as for persistent content — it allows for both collaboration and communication. You can also use “playback” to rewind the wave to see how it evolved.
You can see some screenshots of the service and find some details about the API that could be used to extend the service and the Wave protocol that allows anyone to run a “wave” server. Google promises that Google Wave will be available later this year. See Google Wave: A Complete Guide from mashable.
Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009
Tags: Google, Google Wave, Open Source
July 4, 2009 at 10:39 PM |
nice info da…!